In June, my sister and I will go on a road trip together. We are taking our Mother’s remains back for burial next to my father. I love road trips. I love maps. I love road signs. Even though this trip has a shadow of grief, there will be joy in sharing this journey with my sister. And …
The answer to this question finds its basis in the eternal nature of God himself. When God’s creativity found its expression by giving life to this earth and mankind, his plan and purpose was an everlasting relationship with his creation. He created humans in his image. He breathed into the bodies he made from dirt, …
Recently, a friend commented on my website. She said “On your homepage, you talk about your faith and that there is a Christian element in your novels. But you don’t really talk about your faith in your blog posts.” I had been thinking of this in recent months before she even said anything, and I …
Today, I begin a new theme for my posts on Thursdays. Travel. And it is also a Throwback Thursday this week as I talk about trips before 2018. Trips that continue to inspire me. In 1998, I spent a month in Los Angeles taking part in a Shakespeare acting course with the London Academy of …
“A weary world rejoices” is a line from the Christmas carol, O Holy Night. There are times in my life that a line from a song really resonates with me, and it becomes a source of meditation. Lately, this is just such a line… A weary world rejoices. It is that time of year when Christmas …
Psalm 68:5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. On this Father’s Day, forty-six years since the passing of my own father, I stand in wonder at this verse from the Book of Psalms, and what it means to me. I was ten years old when my father …
When one attempts to write a novel, one of the greatest challenges is developing characters with depth and substance who can come off the page and be fully formed in the imaginations of the reader. Developing characters for fiction at times leads me to reflect on my own character. And as a woman of faith, …